People in Action | Intervention

Professor Osisioma B C Nwolise, The Crusader for Spirituality, is 74

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Billy Dudley, NPSA, Prof Ayo Dunmoye, Prof Okwudiba Nnoli, Prof Pam Dung Sha, Prof Saliu, Prof Sam Egwu, Prof Sule-Kano, Prof. Shuaib Ibrahim, Professors Asisi Asobie, UI, UNILORINNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu In furtherance to my submission on the categorization of scholars made last year (2023), I want to add that another group exists and has gained recognition to the exi... Read more

Salihu Mohammed Bappa: A Bridge Across Many Divides

Posted By: adminon: January 13, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', Christianisation, Gindiri, Guerrilla theatre, Islamisation, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Theatre for Development, UINo CommentsViews:

By Professor Oga Steve Abah* Ladies and Gentlemen, it is a humbling experience for me to stand here on this Memorial event to talk about a colleague I knew and worked with for decades. It is... Read more

Emotions, Encomium and Revelations @ Memorial Lecture for Cde Salihu Bappa

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', Bala Mohammed, Bauchi humanism, Christianisation, Gindiri, Guerrilla theatre, Ibrahim Tahir, Islamisation, NEPU, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Sa’adu Zungur, Theatre for Development, UI, Wole Soyinka, ‘radical tradition in Northern Nigeria’No CommentsViews:

The initial headline for this story has to be amended because of a deluge of protests from observant cartographers of contemporary nationhood in Nigeria who point out that Intervention has c... Read more

Seun Salako Dies @ 64

Posted By: adminon: January 09, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 'University on the Wheels', UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:

Comrade Seun Salako, generally known as cool and calm Comrade is no more. He went to sleep on January 6th but did not wake up in the morning of 7th as expected. His death has left many disco... Read more

Mama Beatrice Onyebuchi Chiemeke’s Grand Departure to the Great Beyond

Posted By: adminon: January 08, 2024In: People in ActionTags: authentic Catholic, Barrister Chiemeke, Ubulu Uku, ‘Stuffing and starving’No CommentsViews:

Hers is one burial event an appreciative Nigeria, particularly activists of the 1980s ought to have attended en masse. Mama Beatrice Onyebuchi Chiemeke is not only an authentic Catholic, she... Read more

Hurray! Prof Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi, the Realist-Idealist Scholar, is 82

Posted By: adminon: January 07, 2024In: People in ActionTags: CHINA, Concept of Medium Powers, Israel, NADECO, NIIA, NPSA, Realism, TAC, UI, UNILAG, USA, Western powersNo CommentsViews:

By Hassan A. Saliu Professor Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi, the son of a priest and politician, is an academic colossus whose impacts on various aspects of Nigerian life cannot be captured in a... Read more

Activists Set to Memorialise Salihu Bappa in Abuja

Posted By: adminon: January 04, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, Cde Salihu Bappa, Development Communication, Dramatic ArtsNo CommentsViews:

Set aside January 11th, 2024 for Salihu Muhammad Bappa, the late Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria academic. Friends, colleagues and associates have democratically decoded to memorialise the in... Read more

How Rifkatu Manasseh Turaki Died in Kaduna on New Year Eve

Posted By: adminon: January 01, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Cde Manasseh Turaki, Dr. Rifkatu Manasseh Turaki, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Heaven, KASUNo CommentsViews:

According to Cde Manasseh Turaki, the husband, in a brief telephone chat with Intervention earlier today, the family woke up to it on Sunday, December 31st, 2023. The wife, Rifkatu Manasseh... Read more

The North, Marxism and ‘Jibo Must Pay’ On Our Minds at the Joyous Night for D. S. Ibrahim @ 85

Posted By: adminon: December 23, 2023In: People in ActionTags: Algerian War of Independence, Danlami Samuel, France, Marxism, Old North, Post-positivism, Social theory, The Communist Manifesto, ‘Jibo Must Pay’, ‘Special Room’No CommentsViews:

It was a joyous but also painful evening. Joyous because junior brothers, grandchildren, in-laws and friends of the family gathered to celebrate a remarkable individual at 85. Painful becaus... Read more

Nigerian, Professor Ijeoma Uchegbu, Breaks Into Cambridge University Establishment, Elected 7th Wolfson College President

Posted By: adminon: December 17, 2023In: People in ActionTags: Cambridge University, NIGERIA, Oxford, Pharmaceutical Nanoscience, UCL, University of Benin, University of Strathclyde, Wolfson CollegeNo CommentsViews:

Tense and unstable domestically from unproductive quarrelling over pittances left by the lords of neoliberal globalisation, Nigeria nevertheless never tires in exceptionalism on a global sca... Read more